Friendly helpers Some administration tasks require several steps. One must visit vari- ous dialog in Linuxconf to achieve the desired goal. The gurus are guiding you through a potentially complex scenario. Several modules may be participating underneath. 11.. PPrreesseennttaattiioonn A helper is a sequence of simple dialog. Each dialog generally present very few field, often, a single one. A lengthy explanation introduce the fields. Once you have answered the question, you hit the _N_e_x_t button to go further, or the _B_a_c_k button to step to a previous dialog. 22.. TThhee mmaapp At the top of the window, there is a map (graphic mode only). It looks like a train station map. Each station correspond to a dialog. The yellow station represent your current location in the map. +o A white circle (blue outside, white inside) represent an empty dialog. Gurus may be used to configure something from scratch or review a configuration. The white circle tells you immediately what may be missing. +o A broken red circle represent a dialog with some invalid input. The input may have been valid at some point but may become invalid later while you change some other dialog along the path. +o A blue filled circle represents a filled dialog with valid input. +o A read line represents a meaningless path. The helper won't visit the dialog along the path because they are not needed. +o A blue line represent a reachable dialog. At this point, the map is not click-able with the mouse, but this is coming.